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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1859. 



No. 194. — CONTENTS, 



NOTES : — The Early Editions of Foxe's Book of Martj-rs, by J. G. 

 Nichols. 221— The Duke of Buckingham, a Ghost Story, 222 — The 

 Great Exhibition of 1851, by Prof. De Morgan, 223— John Lilly, 

 Dramatist, by J. Yeowell, 224. 



MiNoa Notes : — Diligences — Synonymes — " Masterly Inactivity " — 

 Suffragan Bishop, 224. 



QUERIES : — The Great St. Leger: unde vocatur?—" Syr Tryamoure" 

 225. 



Minor Queries : — Canterbury Registers — Chickens feed Capons — 

 Curious Prophecy— Roast Lobster — " Anatomy of Melancholy" — 

 Discountenancing Bills of Exchange —Lieutenant -General Thomas 

 Pearce — Ballop — Chaumont Church — John Milton : a Latin Poem 

 against — Glow-worm Light — Cambridge Latin Plays — Legends of 

 Normandy and Brittany — Publication of Banns — Nonjurors and Ja- 

 cobites — Rev. Philip Bidpath, &c. — Bradstreet Pedigree —Two Kings 

 of Brentford— Abigail Hill (Lady Masham) — Cardinal Wolsey, 226. 



Mixon Queries WITH Answers : — Heralds' Visitation : Assumption of 

 Arms — Inscription on a Ring- Leese : ;Lancer3 — " Pull Garhck " — 

 Mr. John Coleman — " Itacism " — Filleroy, 228. 



REPLIES: — Zachary Boyd, 230— Malabar Jews, by J. H. Van Len- 

 nep, 232— The Pretender, by Rey. W. Matthews, 233 — Chatterton 

 MSS., 234 — James Moore, 235. 



Replies to Minor Queries — Dr. Shelton Mackenzie's Life of Dr. 

 Maginn— On Buying a Bible — Early Catalogues — Grotesques in 

 Churches — Kev. Richard Johnson — Inn Signs by eminent Artists — 

 Lord Fane: Count de Sails— . Bartholomew Cokes — The Termina- 

 tion " - hayne " — Weapon-salye — Origin of the Judge's Black Cap — 

 Side-saddles, &c., 235. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



THE EARLY EDITIONS OF FOXE's BOOK OF 

 MAKTTRS. 



Perhaps no work in the English language has 

 been more lastingly popular, or has passed through 

 so many editions, either entire or in an abridged 

 form, as The Actes and Monuments of the Church, 

 by John Foxe, commonly called The Book of 

 Martyrs. But the old copies, by constant use 

 and in part perhaps from sectarian spite, have so 

 far disappeared, that it is most remarkable how 

 few seem to remain ; and, what is more extra- 

 ordinary, no bibliographer has given a correct 

 account of them. The first edition was produced 

 in 1563, but even Strype, in his Memorials of 

 Cranmer, says that the work was first published 

 in English in 1566. And again, in the history 

 which he gives of the work (Annals, vol. iii. chap, 

 xiv.) he assigns the first edition to 1562, and the 

 second to " about 1582," — none of which dates, I 

 need scarcely say, are corrected in the Oxford 

 edition of Strype's Works, 1812. Mr. Macray, in 

 his Manual of British Historians, 1845, remarks 

 that, " Up to this date (1684), Lowndes and 

 Watt each give only nine editions, but together 

 they give eleven ; the compiler \i. e. Mr, Macray 

 himself] has omitted one mentioned by Watt, that 

 of 1612, and has inserted one of 1610, which is 

 possibly the one Watt means, and is in Donee's 

 collection in the Bodleian." Mr. Macray thus 

 reckons eleven editions; but the edition of 1684 

 was called the ninth, and I believe correctly so. 

 The discrepancies of the bibliographers will be 

 best shown in the following table : — 



Watt. Lowndes. Macray. 



First - 1563 1562-3 1563. 



Second - 1570 1570 1570. 



Third - 1576 1576 1576. 



Fourth - 1583 1583 1583. 



Fifth - 1596-7 1596-7. 



Sixth - 1610, 



1612 1618 1618. 



Seventh - 1632 1632 1632. 



Eighth - 1641 1641 1641. 



1650 1650. 



Ninth - 1684 1684 1684. 



It will be seen that the dates 1612, 1618, and 

 1650 were mistaken. The two former were 

 clerical errors for 1610. The year 1650 may 

 appear on some copies ; but if so, it was not a 

 new edition, but a new title applied to that of 

 1641. 



Now, my present object of inquiry is. Where 

 do any copies of the old editions exist ? I have 

 been successful in finding very few. Even the 

 archiepiscopal library at Lambeth possesses of the 

 first five editions only the second volume of 1596. 

 The library at Sion College has no other edition 

 but that of 1684. At the Athenaeum and at the 

 London Institution there is that edition only. 

 The Bodleian possessed only the fourth, eighth, 

 and ninth editions until the accession of Mr. 

 Douce's collection, which brought two copies of 

 the first edition of 1563, one of 1610, and a 

 second of 1641. Even the national library at the 

 British Museum wants two of the editions, those 

 of 1570 and 1583. It possesses duplicates of 

 1576 and 1641, which were the only copies in the 

 library of George the Third, whilst that of Mr. 

 Grenville brought none whatever. 



Of the first edition, 1563, there are, then, one 

 copy in the British Museum, and twa in the 

 Bodleian, one in th^ library of Magdalene Col- 

 lege, Oxford, presented by Eoxe himself, and 

 two, both imperfect, in the University Library at 

 Cambridge. 



Of the Second Edition, 1570, there is a copy 

 in the University Library at Cambridge, with the 

 cuts coloured. 



Of the Third Edition, 1576, two in the British 

 Museum, and one at Queen's College, Cambridge. 



Of the Fourth Edition, 1583, one in the Bodleian. 



Of the Fifth Edition, 1596, one in the British 

 Museum. 



Of the Sixth Edition, 1610, one in the British 

 Museum, one in the University Library at Cam- 

 bridge, and one in the Bodleian. 



Of the Seventh Edition, 1632, one in the British 

 Museum, and one in the University Library at 

 Cambridge (dated 1631). 



Of the Eighth Edition, 1641, two in the British 

 Museum, two in the Bodleian, one at Cambridge 

 University Library, and one in the library of St. 

 Paul's Cathedral. 



